Biodenitrification in Sequencing Batch Reactors. Final report
- Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
One plan for stabilization of the Solar Pond waters and sludges at Rocky Flats Plant (RFP), is evaporation and cement solidification of the salts to stabilize heavy metals and radionuclides for land disposal as low-level mixed waste. It has been reported that nitrate (NO{sub 3}{sub {minus}}) salts may interfere with cement stabilization of heavy metals and radionuclides. Therefore, biological nitrate removal (denitrification) may be an important pretreatment for the Solar Pond wastewaters at RFP, improving the stability of the cement final waste form, reducing the requirement for cement (or pozzolan) additives and reducing the volume of cemented low-level mixed waste requiring ultimate disposal. A laboratory investigation of the performance of the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) activated sludge process developed for nitrate removal from a synthetic brine typical of the high-nitrate and high-salinity wastewaters in the Solar Ponds at Rocky Flats Plant was carried out at the Environmental Engineering labs at the University of Colorado, Boulder, between May 1, 1994 and October 1, 1995.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 219449
- Report Number(s):
- LA-SUB-96-67; ON: DE96009542; TRN: 96:014243
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 23 Jan 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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